Encouraging Hearing Loss Prevention in Music Listeners Using Personalized Technology: Questionnaire Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) affects millions of people despite being almost completely preventable. For recreational music listening through personal listening equipment (such as earbuds), it seems that listeners do not yet have a way to accurately assess their risk of developing hearing loss and prevent it accordingly.

Objective

The aim of this study is to analyze the perceived utility of a hypothetical device that encourages NIHL prevention based on listeners' exposure to noise and to determine the most effective methods of such encouragement. Here, we describe 3 different potential NIHL risk notification method types, as follows: auditory, external visual, and visual.

Methods

An open, web-based survey was created on Google Forms, and the link was p

SUBMITTER: Zhu DT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9274393 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature